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Happy New Year, New Year’s, or New Years? How to Wish Someone Well in 2018
ALICE E.M. UNDERWOOD · The last thing you want to worry about when ringing in the new year is where to put the apostrophe. Get the nitty-gritty on New Year, New Year’s, and New Years so you can make a toast at midnight and get your punctuation right while you’re at it. When is it “New Year’s”? Use
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Why Is the Oxford Comma a Heated Debate in 2017?
DANIEL POTTER · If you stare awhile at the string of characters that a sentence comprises, the squiggles lose all meaning. That humans somehow manage to agree on the use of these symbols well enough to communicate at all can seem miraculous. But what about when we don’t quite agree—when it seems a writer has added a superfluous,
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To Whom It May Concern: When and How to Use It Properly
By KAREN HERTZBERG Once, in a time before nearly everyone had access to the Internet in the palms of their hands, it was common to begin business correspondence with the salutation To Whom It May Concern. But times have changed. We’ll take a look at whether you should use To Whom It May Concern, explore a
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5 Ways to Avoid Starting A Sentence with “But” or “And”
It’s true that you want to keep your writing as conversational as possible, but at the same time, you want to avoid mistakes that can lower the grade of what you produce. No one wants to read Shakespeare on a regular basis, but at the same time no one wants to read sloppy writing because
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